Cosmic Codes - Definitions

The following are some definitions which may be helpful to you in your study of the mysteries of the Bible Codes:

a·cros·tic [uh-kraw-stik, uh-kros-tik] n.

A poem or series of lines in which certain letters, usually the first in each line, form a name, motto, or message when read in sequence.

cryp·tog·ra·phy [krip-tog-ruh-fee] n.

The process or skill of communicating in or deciphering secret writings or ciphers.

Secret writing.

The practice and study of encryption and decryption - encoding data so that it can only be decoded by specific individuals.

A system for encrypting and decrypting data is a cryptosystem. These usually involve an algorithm for combining the original data (“plaintext”) with one or more “keys” - numbers or strings of characters known only to the sender and/or recipient. The resulting output is known as “ciphertext”.

crypt·a·nal·y·sis [krip-tuh-nal-uh-sis] n.

The analysis and deciphering of cryptographic writings or systems. Also crypt·an·a·lyt·ics [krip-tan-l-it-iks] (used with a sing. verb)

The study of techniques for deciphering cryptographic writings or systems.

cryp·tol·o·gy [krip-tol-uh-jee] n.

The study of cryptanalysis or cryptography.

ci·pher also cy·pher [sahy-fer] n.

A cryptographic system in which units of plain text of regular length, usually letters, are arbitrarily transposed or substituted according to a predetermined code.

The key to such a system.

A message written or transmitted in such a system.

de·ci·pher [dih-sahy-fer] v. t.

To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.